View Full Version : ***CLOSED*** friday morning competition! * winner * Simon1987 *
Its friday! :D
one of these up for grabs:
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory+-+Flash/USB+Pen+Drives/Intenso+Rainbow+16GB+USB+Flash+drive+-+Black+?productId=40404
Picture Round:
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac349/robinm2/10.jpg
1. What is it?
2. What technology did this company introduce that is now essential for the ultimate gaming PC?
3. Why was this company cool?
Answers in by 2pm!
wow, one of those was top of my shopping list in the day :lol:
So I know what it is, what they introduced and have my opinion on why they were cool. But I also know that copy and pasters have been waiting for someone to post. So I'm not going to :lol:
DT.
BreadMurderer
17-09-10, 10:28
1. Graphics Card
2. The company (3dfx Interactive) introduced 3D graphics processing units - obviously essential to gamers as they are essentially graphics cards!
3. This company was cool because you could play awesome games in gloriously smooth pixelated 3D - and the rest of your system would take less of a hammering because of it. Yay!
1) Looks to me like an AGP Voodoo 5 5500 Video card from 3DFX, their last production card before Nvidia and ATI wiped them out.
2) They introduced the consumer level 3D Graphics Processor card. Originally a second board for your machine that working in conjunction with the existing video card.
3) They are cool because they took their Arcade technology to a consumer level. Simple fact is that the Voodoo cards are the most important release in 3D gaming hardware and without them we would be years behind where we now are.
No idea without copying/pasting so if that invalidates my entry, no problem :)
1) AGP card (i knew that bit lol)
2) Introduction of GPU's as a single upgrade card
3) Took the stress off the onboard graphics and allowed companies to develop more and better units to forward the industry
By the way, must say I LOVE these trivia type quizs :)
1.Voodoo 5 5500.
2.Introduced affordable 3D gaming to the masses.
3. Was cool because it was the first 3DFX card to beat an Nvidia offering and they also invented SLI.
3. Was cool because it was the first 3DFX card to beat an Nvidia offering and they also invented SLI.
:cop:
Nvidia didn't manage to get a card close to 3DFX till the TNT2 / Voodoo 3. This got them their performance crown back but was short lived as it was so late to market and expensive that Nvidia and ATI left no room for them. Also pretty sure Nvidia invented SLI as the first I remember hearing of it was on PCI-E systems and is a trademark of theirs (though they did buy 3DFX so not sure if it was originally used for 3DFX's earlier secondary boards).
Oh and before you copy and pasters go crazy, I think it is a Voodoo 5 5500, but it could be 5000 as I think the one I remember had a different memory layout with more chips.
1. It is a Voodoo 5 5000 (prototype) on a AGP bus. Never properly released, and had half the ram of its older brother (32MB) the Voodoo 5 5500.
2. They introduced SLi Technology, the "Scan Line Interleave" approach to multiple GPU technology, rather than Alternate frame rendering or other technologies nowerdays, this one (SLI) increased performance proportionally to the number of GPU's used. Upto 32 could be linked together with Voodoo's SLI technology.
nVidia nowerdays use SLI technology, but they use Single Link Interface, which is just a method of connecting two Graphics processors together.
3. This company was cool because they were the big dogs who brought 3D gaming to the masses at an affordible price, and made people like nVidia and ATi up their game.
1) AGP card
2) GPU's as single upgrade card
3) Invented revolutionary cooling systems for GPU's
1) Looks to me like an AGP Voodoo 5 5500 Video card from 3DFX, their last production card before Nvidia and ATI wiped them out.
2) They introduced the consumer level 3D Graphics Processor card. Originally a second board for your machine that working in conjunction with the existing video card.
3) They are cool because they took their Arcade technology to a consumer level. Simple fact is that the Voodoo cards are the most important release in 3D gaming hardware and without them we would be years behind where we now are.
1.Voodoo 5 5500.
2.Introduced affordable 3D gaming to the masses.
3. Was cool because it was the first 3DFX card to beat an Nvidia offering and they also invented SLI.
:cop:
Nvidia didn't manage to get a card close to 3DFX till the TNT2 / Voodoo 3. This got them their performance crown back but was short lived as it was so late to market and expensive that Nvidia and ATI left no room for them. Also pretty sure Nvidia invented SLI as the first I remember hearing of it was on PCI-E systems and is a trademark of theirs (though they did buy 3DFX so not sure if it was originally used for 3DFX's earlier secondary boards).
I just got my answers form Wiki, same as you it seems.
1) I think it's a Voodoo 5 5000 agp
2) SLI maybe?
3)It was cool coz it was they made the very first card that protected your PC from evil *cough* nvidia. :D
1: Voodoo5 5500 two VSA-100 graphics processors
2: Introduced affordable 3D gaming
3: They were kicking nvida/ati asses
I think having done some research...
1) Voodoo5 5500 with 64MB memory and an AGP interface
2) They introduced SLI which allowed multiple cards to be joined together - essential for the "ultimate gaming pc" mentioned in the question ;)
3) They were cool as the manufactured primarily OEM chips for arcade machines, and moved their expertise into the PC graphics market. Because of their historical basis in the arcade market, their "Glide" API was more efficient and yielded better performance than their competitors equivalents who's API acted as an abstraction layer. So while ATI/NVidia were easier to program for due to their API, the Glide API was more complicated but gave real performance benefits.
A Ginger Sheep
17-09-10, 11:03
1. AGP Voodoo 5 5500 Video card from 3DFX
2. The company brought the first consumer level graphics card to the market allowing 3d games to be played on home computers.
3. This company is cool as they were the founding fathers of modern day pc gaming!!
1. What is it?
looks alot like the voodoo 5 5000
2. What technology did this company introduce that is now essential for the ultimate gaming PC?
dual gpu
3. Why was this company cool?
they made pc gaming a reality, they was the first to do the dual gpu on one board which even today they still use as the way to get the most powerful graphics card on the market.
I promise you its not the 5500 :)
I promise you its not the 5500 :)Shhhhhhhhh.. ;)
1) Voodoo 5 5000.
2) Company introduced proper consumer 3d Gaming in the form of the Voodoo1 and Banshee.
3) They were cool because they introduced the first form of SLI gaming cards with the Voodoo2.
They were also cool because they allowed their video cards to be overclocked. Sometimes to a massive 60mhz on the Voodoo2 cards! :eek:
They were also cool because installing my Voodoo1 was the first reason I had to open a computer and put bits inside it, which meant I started to understand computers.. And I now run my own computer company :clap:clap
I promise you its not the 5500 :)
Might have been a bit too geeky this one, so we are not going to be that specific in accepting answers :)
Might have been a bit too geeky this one, so we are not going to be that specific in accepting answers :)
Nah - its relatively easy if you do a bit of searching!
I just got my answers form Wiki, same as you it seems.
Aren't they all fleshed out with some Wiki ;), it was a long time ago now.
1. It is a Voodoo 5 5000 (prototype) on a AGP bus. Never properly released, and had half the ram of its older brother (32MB) the Voodoo 5 5500.
2. They introduced SLi Technology, the "Scan Line Interleave" approach to multiple GPU technology, rather than Alternate frame rendering or other technologies nowerdays, this one (SLI) increased performance proportionally to the number of GPU's used. Upto 32 could be linked together with Voodoo's SLI technology.
nVidia nowerdays use SLI technology, but they use Single Link Interface, which is just a method of connecting two Graphics processors together.
3. This company was cool because they were the big dogs who brought 3D gaming to the masses at an affordible price, and made people like nVidia and ATi up their game.
Now that man either knows his stuff or is some kind of Google god
Now that man either knows his stuff or is some kind of Google god
Rev.A0 3700 Card also
A bit of a collectors thing these cards due to how few there are.
1. agp voodoo AWESOMENESS Card
2. They introduced the awesome and wonderful SLI tech and also was very affordable.
3. They are soooo cool because they introduced me to the world of pc upgrading making me a bit of money on the side while going through school. It also helped me to get my first affordable gaming rig going.
InvaderGIR
17-09-10, 11:29
Nah - its relatively easy if you do a bit of searching!
Only if you either a) Knew roughly what it was, b) googled someone else's answer.
I had no clue what it is when I opened the comp thread and so will not be entering. I don't see the point in entering a comp when you're using someone else's answer :) (not saying you have, but I'm sure some will be doing that and I've certainly seen some direct copy paste answers in previous comps). :)
1. AGP Voodoo 5 5500 Video card
2. The company introduced the first mass consumer level graphics card to the market allowing 3D games to be played on computers at home.
3. This company is cool because they introduced the ability to game on your home PC, to the masses
Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
First SLI technology
Cool because they brought 3d graphics cards to the mainstream
1. 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 (AGP)
2. They introduced SLI (scan line interleave)
3. They were cool because they were a pioneer in the graphics field for several years and combined a Voodoo chip with a 2D chip that lay on the same circuit board, eliminating the need for a separate VGA card. :thumb:
It is a Voodoo 5 Agp
first usable 3d card 'for the public'
It also introduced SLI
3DFX were pioneers in the graphics field. I think they were also the first to use fans on graphics cards
wonderlust
17-09-10, 11:58
1: Voodoo 5000 AGP card (some places state the card in the pic is a prototype card)
2. 3DFX were ther first company to introduce the use of two 3D cards to work together. This was called SLI (Scan-line Interleave) this produced the image be each card working on alternate lines in the image unlike Nvidia's SLI (Scalable Link Interface) where one card does the top and the other the bottom of the screen.
3. The company was cool as they brought one of the first proper 3D cards to the market (iirc Marox's Millenium was the first, although the 3D was never able to be used for games) There technology was based on arcade chipsets and used add on cards. The one of the first popular 3D games was Psygnosis F1 that came in 3 different versions, Software rendered, Direct 3d and Glide (3DFX's own api). I was gutted having bought a Matrox Mystique (one of the first 2d/3d cards) and seen the same game running on a friends PC on a voodoo1 that was so much better looking!
Its a 3dfx Interactive Voodoo 5 5500 (it came in a purple box if I remember correctly)
3dfx Interactive introduced the VSA 100 (Voodoo Scalable Architecture) chip which were linked by 3dfx's Scan-Line Interleave (SLI) technology (I.E. they invented both multi chip cards and SLI tech)
3DFX were cool because they kick started the "3d graphics cards for the masses" that were now so spoilt for choice....for :D
1. Voodoo 5000 AGP
2. SLI technology
3. Brought 3D gaming to the consumer level at reasonable prices - where would we be without it?
1. AGP Video card, possibly a late generation Voodoo.
2. Early pioneer of 3d graphic processors
3. They brought arcade level graphics to the pc leapfrogging the established video card vendors.
Broadsword1976
17-09-10, 12:08
Voodoo 5 5000
Pretty much 1st SLI capable card.
Cool 'cos it would have made you a gaming god in 2000
from my online search (helped by previous posts, have no doubt) there's a guy trying to locate every single card in private hands.... That's dedication. Nerd points right there.
Actually now ive done some googleing it was the Voodoo 3 2000 that came in a purple box, ahh the memorys.....they hurt and strain my mind (and it was only 10-11 years ago) :S
Andrew Moore
17-09-10, 12:16
Voodoo 5 5500.
Introduced 3D gaming to the masses with a pocket friendly daughter card that could sit in any compatible motherboard with agp. Also housed dual chips on a single pcb making it the first card to be able to harness 2 gpus to render one screen.
Cool because it invented SLI. Although under a slightly different description to today's but meant all the same.
Rev.A0 3700 Card also
A bit of a collectors thing these cards due to how few there are.
Kudos to the knowledge :clap
I take it the SLI was on their earlier PCI stuff? Was SLI the reference to it working with the other traditional adapter or could you fill your PCI bus with those bad boys? Didn't realise quite what a robbing bunch the men in green were.
Have to admit I was too young to have the cash for even a single one of the early Voodoos, didn't realise you could chuck more than one in. Was working by the time the GeForce / ATI / Voodoo competiton for AGP boards ramped up so took more interest then.
Aha i have a voodoo 2, when i was a nipper.
SLI back then was splitting up lines of pixels from the display. so half of 1024x768 each. The SLI used a ribbon cable in the pc. You could get cards with 4 voodoo chips on, but only link 2 cards themselves together due to there only being one ribbon cable on each card.
1) AGP card
2) Introduction of GPU's as a single upgrade card
3) Took the stress off the onboard graphics and allowed companies to develop more and better units to forward the industry
Tricktronic
17-09-10, 12:31
1. 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 (AGP):p
2. They introduced SLI (scan line interleave):thumb:
3. They were cool because they were a pioneer in the graphics field for several years and combined a Voodoo chip with a 2D chip that lay on the same circuit board, eliminating the need for a separate VGA card. ;)
Kudos to the knowledge :clap
I take it the SLI was on their earlier PCI stuff? Was SLI the reference to it working with the other traditional adapter or could you fill your PCI bus with those bad boys?
Im prolly really wrong here, but im sure earlier cards were multi card Sli voodoo 2 ect, but the VSA 100 cards were single card multi gpu only with Sli as their interconnect between the chips.
Trying to google it but not finding anything about multi card setups :S
redrooster303
17-09-10, 12:36
1)its the AGP Voodoo from 3dfx
2)they fetched previously unreachable 3D tech to the normal guy
3)it was cool because at a time when i used to think soundcards was the ultimate upgrade etc these came out. and instead of me looking for great games with 3d graphics in the arcade (and blowing all my cash) i could buy one of these for my 386 (think thats what i had then) and go crazy in my bedroom with the 3Dtech. i used to scour the ads in the mags for a cheaper/better one (i didn't have t'internet then:(). graphics would never be the same and because of these we are buying 5870's and 460's now.:)
AGP Voodoo 5 5500 Video card from 3DFX
3DFX were ther first company to introduce the use of two 3D cards to work together. This was called SLI (Scan-line Interleave)
Took the stress off the onboard graphics and allowed companies to develop more and better units to forward the industry
1. Voodoo 5 5500
2. 3d Graphics!
3. Cool because they beat the rest, and gave us gamers lots of fun!
1) That's an AGP 3dfx Voodoo5 5000 with 32mb of memory (PCB date should read 3700 on the pictured model). In fact, it was only a prototype and never released in that exact form, and so is only revision A0 (as you can just about make out). Such a card would be worth quite a bit now I should think because it's so rare.
2) They introduced technology that allowed more than one GPU to work together to improve performance. The VSA-100 (Voodoo Scalable Architecture) chips in theory allowed up to 32 processors to work together on a single card (imagine that!) with the performance (or fillrate) increasing in proportion. This tech was called SLI (Scan-Line Interleave) and paved the way for todays multi-GPU mega-cards! Not to be confused with the identical acronym and indeed similar technology from nVidia, which stands for Scalable Link Interface.
3) I'd say any company that revolutionises home PC gaming and paves the way for some the the most powerful graphics cards ever seen must be pretty cool. I think also their legendary status and now relative obscurity to most adds to the cool factor too!
1. It is a Voodoo 5 5500 with a AGP bus (from 3dfx Interactive).
2. It is the first graphics card to support support full 32-bit color depth in 3D, allowing up to 32 processors to work together making it pownage for it's generation. It also had superior anti-aliasing in comparison to the ATi and nVidea cars out there at the time making it even better.
3. They were cool because they wern't afraid to try new things and the fact that they made something so awesome like the 5 5500 and never realised it in the end shows how cool they are.
1. What is it? Voodoo5 5500
2. What technology did this company introduce that is now essential for the ultimate gaming PC? SLI basically process of using many GPU cores to increase 3D Performance which allows for more fluid dynamic silky smooth gameplay :thumb:
3. Why was this company cool? 3DFX revolutionize gaming industry by making first 3D GPU accelerators aimed for the masses.
1. It is a Voodoo 5 5000
2. The reason was they introduced SLI, which meant you can use two cards together to increase performance.
3. The company was cool as they were the first to introduce 3d gaming to a good level at a decent price.
1) It's an AGP 3dfx Voodoo5 5000 (REV A0 prototype with 32mb of memory, the only other variant had the memory modules in a straight line, as per the 5500). This was the last variant of Voodoo5 5000 ever made by 3dfx.
Although the connector is an AGPx4 the card actually only runs an AGP x2 66Mhz bus on the old 3.3v standard. Why did they make it AGP 4x then? No idea, they never really intended to make an AGP card to start with, so maybe they thought on these they'd stick an AGP 4x connector on so that they could still fire them up for testing in a few years, or maybe they were just hoping some voodoo magic would make it faster.
Unlike the earlier revision the ram on this card runs at 166Mhz and actually reports the full 32MB of RAM on system startup - previous voodoo cards would only show one core/memory allocation to the system at startup to avoid compatibilty issues with addressing what in effect was 2 graphics cards in one system, so you'd would only see, for example, 16MB of RAM - which as you can imagine sometimes made a new buyer a bit worried, but this version had BIOS modifications and ran the VSA-100 chip which, along with other additions, solved that little issue.
Being the later, most stable revision of the card, (and with the strange 4x connector and shorter PCB), this is now regarded as a highly sought after collectors item.
2+3) Not only were the compay the introducers of SLi technology to the masses, they also enabled 3d graphics cards to move to the mainstream with cheap, powerful graphics cards for the masses, think you're fancy twin-core card is good now? Well, this has twin cores when it was released, the prototype 6000-series had 4 cores, and there were plans for up to 32!
Unfortunately the 5500/6000 series was already using an expensive (back then) 6 layer PCB trace for it's mainboard, and the new cards - under the HiNT, or Intel Rev moniker - would simply be too expensive, at a time when Nvidia and Ati had finally stepped up their game and were finally outperforming them.
Still, I'd bet anyone who had a computer in the '90s had a voodoo card at some point, which shows just what sort of impact they had on the explosion of graphics-rich games, that they've long since been bought out and are still refered to with awe shows just what a legendary company they became.
Voodoo 5 5500/ cheap 3D gaming (it is on my budget)/ first 3DFX card.
4th oh never asked ....but if you did I have a need to improve!
fullfatmilk
17-09-10, 13:59
it's a Voodoo 5 5000 32mb agp Prototype card
They introduced SLI [scan line interleave]
and 3dfx were cool because they made playing quake awesome
Ding Ding last orders?? :D
1. It is a Voodoo 5 5000 (prototype) on a AGP bus. Never properly released, and had half the ram of its older brother (32MB) the Voodoo 5 5500.
2. They introduced SLi Technology, the "Scan Line Interleave" approach to multiple GPU technology, rather than Alternate frame rendering or other technologies nowerdays, this one (SLI) increased performance proportionally to the number of GPU's used. Upto 32 could be linked together with Voodoo's SLI technology.
nVidia nowerdays use SLI technology, but they use Single Link Interface, which is just a method of connecting two Graphics processors together.
3. This company was cool because they were the big dogs who brought 3D gaming to the masses at an affordible price, and made people like nVidia and ATi up their game.
Bit late mate, closes at 2pm ;)
welcome to forum btw, here for prizes i see :D
As Aria is away at the moment, I get to do this one...
1. Yes it is of course a Voodoo 5 series card - kudos to those who spotted the differences between the 5000 and 5500 ;)
2/3 SLI & Multiple GPU's, making Lara Croft 'more rounded' etc :D
Let me have a look through the posts and will post a winner in a mo!
congrats whoever won..I won this same thing last week.
making Lara Croft 'more rounded'
Was she eating them :confused:
I dropped the best answers into Excel.... and it picked
Simon1987!
Broadsword1976
17-09-10, 14:52
Well done Simon' !
Enjoy your comp prize bud,
More of these type of comps would be ace :D
Congratz and yeah it should do although I've never really seen much of an improvement using readyboost.
Thanks a lot guys.
Nice one :)
Will this work with win7 readyboost?
congrats mate, ye it will work but as Marv says there isn't any noticeable difference, i haven't noticed with my 8gb 30mb/s read rate Flash drive.
redrooster303
17-09-10, 16:06
GRATZ
1. Yes it is of course a Voodoo 5 series card - kudos to those who spotted the differences between the 5000 and 5500 ;)
Cool, I won some Kudos!! :D
Cool, I won some Kudos!! :D
Brilliant, how do I install it?
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